Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

Uncertain times can have negative impacts on our outlooks toward unique American experiences, but these narratives of cowboys ...

Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women who processed astronomical data at the university.

A show at the Met offers a feminist revision of Chinoiserie, a decorative style that swept through Europe in the age of ...

The historic city, as well as the outposts of jagged mountains, wide river spots and wide open space bring the early days ...

Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.

In the old and new Great Game, Afghanistan has held a central position. Peter Hopkirk, in his path-breaking book The Great ...

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou's famous autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U ...

Caroline Collins looks at such people as mariners, explorers, whalers and shipbuilders between the 16th and 20th centuries ...